I know it's just a scene change from Koby to Buggy, but I really like how their panels are RIGHT next to each other.
It almost feels as if Buggy is also correcting Koby in a way instead of just his men: "Our world"
Juxtapose this against Koby's flashback, where he suggests that Luffy will have to make everyone kneel before him, when that is not Luffy's intention at all.
Koby, Luffy is your rival but he's also your friend. He wants to share the world with you. He's not going to make you kneel.
I feel Luffy and Buggy are going to be the main contenders for King of the Pirates. It is going to come down to them, after all is said and done.
I think it's funny that during Dressrosa there seems to be no thought process other than "omg despite everything Luffy still accepts me as a brother🥹🥹🥹" in that head of his
"what? huh? yes, yes, revolutionary army, anyway MY BROTHER LUFFY--"
Nami's hug to Luffy when they reunite in Zou makes me wonder how many times the crew has relied on Luffy as an emotional support puppy. No matter what, they all know, Luffy's got them and is ready to cuddle the sh out of them.
Fucked up one piece creatures (requested)
creature asl
NAMI, THE NAVIGATOR - The woman raises her head, shifting under a thick quilt.
NAMI, THE NAVIGATOR - Do you need something, sir?
EMPATHY - She spent the previous night awake, entirely focused on her work. That concentration has been disrupted by you.
I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?
Honestly, no one is doing it like Vinsmoke Sanji. He's royalty. He's homeless. He's a convicted criminal. He is a damsel in distress. He's a knight in shining armor. He takes down the Government at 10 am then makes a Bouchée à la reine from scratch at 11. He has the empathy of a buddhist monk in the Himalayas. He will beat up a 90 year old. He has never given a fuck, he cant sleep at night cz of how much he cares. He is a ballerina. He sets his legs on fire. He is a slut. He is a virgin. He is a feminist He is a pervert. He's a fashion icon. He wears Alexander McQueen suits to the beach. He has never known happiness. God has personal beef with him.
Remember how it took a Skill bond with Fitz for the Fool to realise that Fitz actually loved him and hadn't just been humouring him all these years out of pity I'm gonna fucking vomit
Malta and lord Golden, Myblack and Fitz.
Studies of drawing by Ludwig Vacatko.
[Image ID: a digital drawing of The Fool from Realm of The Elderlings in his black motley. On the left side of the drawing, he is standing upright. There are plants, leaves and flowers in his white fluffy hair. He wears a black vest and pants. He has puffy sleeves. On the right, he is sitting with a dreamy look. He's supporting his head with his right hand. In the right upper corner there is a thought bubble coming from his head in which there are Fitz and Smithy visible. /.End ID]
fooling and fitzing